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RUGGLES S'. TORREY, OF BANGOR, MAINE.

Leners Patent No. 93,372, mail August 3, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT 1N BEE-Elves.

The Schedule referred to in-thes Lettere Patent and making 'part of the same.

nation and arrangement of devices hereinafter described.

lo enable others skilled in the art to which my invention appertains, to make and use the same, I will now describe its construction and operation.

In the accompanying drawing-v A represents the hive made in two or more sections, B B, kept in place by the metal knees a e, riveted to the corners of the sections, and by pins ae, attached to the upper section, fitting receptacles formed in the lower section.

l1 b b represent the comb-frames placed in a vertical position in each section, as seen in the drawing.

Each of the comb-frames is troughed out, as seen at i, for the purpose of holding the feed for the bees, which is inserted through the tubes c c e, lattached to the top of thel hive.

E, the bottom, which is made a little larger than the sections, with a piece of Wirenetting, d, in the centrefor the purpose of ventilation.

This bottom is reversible, being turned over in fall, in order to leave a space under the com bs, and in winter, to receive the dead bees, 86o.

d d represent slides pivoted between each section.

Having thus described my invention,

WVhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A bee-hive, consisting of the sections B B', eomb frames?) b b, with troughs i t' @glass C, top D, and bottom E, provided with wire netting el, all combined, arranged, and operating substantially in the manner and for the purpose described.

In testimony that I claim theforegoing as my own, I aix my signature, in presence of two witnesses.

R. S. TORREY.

Witnesses W. C. CROSBY, GHAs, HAMLIN. 

